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Well said. The majority who want to fire Scioscia think it will result it more wins. It may or may not but there is more to this decision for Arte than just wins. There is business as well as the in town competition he has with the Dodgers.

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From a business standpoint (yes baseball is a business), letting Scioscia go would be a disaster for Arte's master plan. Arte's master plan is for the Angels to be the premier team in the LA region. Unfortunately his HUGE opportunity to do this was in the last 3 years while Dodgers ownership floundered that team. If the Angels dominated and won a WS in the last three years that might have happened for Arte. Now come to the present. The Angels are still not the premier team in LA but the Angels hold one card that are still keeping them in the game and it's Scioscia. If the Angels let Scioscia go, he will be hired by the Dodgers the same day. And..the Dodgers would win a WS with Scioscia as manager guaranteed and that would then make the Angels permenantly irrelevant in the LA market. Arte would lose millions and millions if this happens. The fire Scioscia pundits don't realize how good he is. Two manager of the year awards and several runner ups. A WS victory, first for Angels. Many western division titles, 3 consecutive. 6 playoff appearances in his forst 10 years (first manager to do this). Until Scioscia arrived theAngels never had any success other than a few divison titles and a first round exit every time. I am amazed that people are not calling Dipoto out. He is very inexperienced as a GM, has decimated our farm system, and has thrown a bunch of highly qualified players together that can't seem to play together. A GM should be able to see some of these intangibles. I don't think any of us can pinpoint why this team is not clicking but a very experienced baseball person should see it and should have foreseen it. I put that on Dipoto. I hope we get rid of Dipoto soon and try someone new. He has wasted Arte's money on the bad decisions he has made. That is not on Scioscia.

I wanted to start a discussion centered around Hamilton, his previous Alcohol issues, and how this dynamic might affect team chemistry. For example, after a game, a bunch of the guys might want to go out and grab a beer and blow off some steam. I'm sure this happens fairly often on MLB teams. If I were part of that team it would make me uncomfortable to drink alcohol around Hamilton. I would choose not to drink around him as a show of support. Does anyone know how this was handled in Texas? I know when they won various playoffs and divisions they would not have alcohol as part of the celebration. I'm not trying to make any relationship between Hamilton's slump or the teams bad start but I wonder what something like this can do for a team chemistry and how it might hurt or help the chemistry. Please be mature and respectful with your comments. It's not really something to joke about.

Stoneman won a WS and numerous Western Division titles with minimal superstars. The dude knew what he was doing. Many of these teams were boring to watch but they won games.

Charlie Sheen on a bong

I think in hindsight our last two GM's make Bill Stoneman look incredibly brilliant. He did way more with a lot less $$$ and brought us a WS and many division flags. With the discussion of all the failings of this team, and distribution of blame, You have to include Dipoto in the conversation. The offense he built is awesome and I have no idea that sooner or later these guys are going to get really pissed and start putting up a 20 run game or two. However, the pitching is hardly noticeable and will not keep us in half the games unless they figure something out. This team reminds me of the old Texas rangers, could always tear the cover off the ball but would lose because of their pitching and finish consistently at the bottom of the ALWest.

Interesting article on this battle between Angels, TicketExchange and Stubhub. http://www.thepostgame.com/blog/daily-take/201304/why-fans-should-care-about-battle-california-assembly-between-angels-stubhub

My two cents on Wells. I always thought he was a pretty good player. However, not even close to the value the Angels paid him. He is injury prone and that's always a risk. He is streaky too and always seems to get hurt after a sustained hot streak. I thought he carried himself with class in Anaheim despite the venom being delivered his way for lack of performance. I wish him no ill will and glad he is "coming back" in a new environement. Shame on us for that contract many years back!

Scioscia didn't build this team and at the end of the day it's the players who have to perform. I'm sure this has been brought up a lot but he has a WS ring and 5 division championships in 10 years. I'll continue to take my chances with him. In many instances I would jump on the "fire the manager bandwagon" if you can see it in the players that they don't have confidence in their leadership. I don't think that could be further from the truth with Scioscia. If you start to hear noise and controversy coming out of the clubhouse then you know there are issues but you never hear that from a scioscia managed team. Players believe in him and vice versa. This team has to gel and hopefully they will start to do that soon. Once they do that they will be fine. If I can blame anyone for the slow start I would blame Dipoto. This team does not look like a playoff contender when you look at the pitching staff but somehow they will have to figure it out like we did in 2002. I have confidence we will figure it out. this team is very capable of going on a long winning streak.

Anyone heard anything?

Trout 2-3 Double

A.J. Pissing off Yu

Do we have a hit yet?

Go skins. Need you RG3

I'm in pain just watching that replay

It was cute for about 15 seconds but that was an hour ago.

Is anyone else hearing those kids on the TV broadcast. They are louder than the announcers and they are Texas fans. Maybe my 5.1 is messed up.

This is an interesting topic. There a group of people who only resale Angels tickets to make $$. I'm sort of like that. I have 16 season seats. I have a group of 14 in Lower view that I sell and make a few thousand dollars on each year. However, this only offsets the losses that I have on my Club MVP seats which I use a lot. I could not afford those club MVP's otherwise. If this gets too complicated I will get rid of ll my seats except a few in lower view. That's actually how I started 10 years ago. The question is: If season ticket holders could not resell how many would give up their seats (my hand raised). My guess is around 3k to 5k.

Hamilton 2-5 HR

This is a big battle and the Yankees and Angels are in the same situation. This article was very confusing as the way the title reads, it makes it sound like the Angels are the ones behind this action. It's actually stubhub. Buried 8 paragraphs down is the crux of the article. The disagreement between StubHub and the Angels is simple and it centers around floor pricing. StubHub does not believe in floor pricing and thinks the market should set the lowest price a ticket can be sold out. The Angels on the other hand want to set floor pricing for each section.

That was great to watch and see no matter how much Neil has lost. The time delay I think messed him up a bit. Also, I thought the Fox TV feed didn't do it justice. they didn't pick up how loud the crowd was. I found this youtube video which really seemed to captured the moment of being there. Pretty good except for the guy the near the mic who only sang the line "nah nah nah nah"

American's funniest home video winner if you can shorten it to 10 seconds and avoid being sued by MLB.

Yes and he preceded the story with a comment about how the Detroit Players have all been talking about this party they went to last night for Miguel. After he said that I expected him to say something about a car full of women and a horse-trailer showing up at this house in Anaheim. What a let down the next 30 seconds was.

That birthday story is what made me post. I had had enough. lol!